| Description | Crank Engines. (21 items).
518. George Clarke & Co., Manchester (LR). Jan., Mar.-Jun., Sep., Oct. 1838, Mar. 1839, Oct. 1840, Jan., Feb. 1842. 21 items.
60 horse power double-acting crank engine, with [38¼ inch cylinder], 7 foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod.
Reverse plan and section of the engine house, Feb. 1838; reverse plan and longitudinal section of the engine house, coloured original and reverse sections of the engine house, reverse plan of the tunnel, Jun. 1838; entablature beams and spring beams, air pump and condenser, parallel motion for the hot and cold water pumps, connecting rod, crank, shaft and plummer blocks - coloured reverse drawings; press copy sketches of plummer blocks and eccentric blocks, arrangement of hot water pumps with letter from Gilbert Hamilton to William Bennett dated 17 Mar. 1838, hot water cistern; small pencil sketch of the cistern; coloured plan of the engine sent by Wren & Bennett, Mar. 1838. The reverse drawings bear letter codes.
Also the following memoranda, letters, accounts etc.: pencil memoranda of correspondence 26 Apr. 1837-18 Jan. 1838, memoranda of correspondence, 24 Jun. 1837-19 Apr. 1838; accounts 4 Mar. 1839 and 31 Oct. 1840; press copy of account 31 Jan. 1842, account without interest Feb. 1842, letter from Henry Wollaston Blake to Gilbert Hamilton dated 7 Feb. 1842 with extracts from letters of Jan. and Feb. 1838, account 17 Feb. 1842.
Original Book (Portfolio) No. 917. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 94.
For George Clarke & Co. Hope Mills, Manchester.
See also: Incoming Correspondence. |